My trips

I first properly met the idea of Lithuania many years ago. I always tell people that I have learned half of what I know on Youtube. Not sure if this is a good sign. But the fact is that I once encountered a video about Lithuania's fight for freedom and independence. The short video presented the tragic events of January 1991, when the Soviet Military forces killed 15 innocent Lithuanians that were defending their country's liberty. The main clash happened at the TV Tower in the capital city of Vilnius. The Soviet Union collapsed at the end of that same year, which meant that Lithuania and many of the other Republics were free after decades of occupation. The tragic events of the TV tower were accompanied by the beautiful song "Laisvė/Freedom". This video made a big impression on me. It helped me understand the meaning of independence for the Baltics and other nations. And it helped me understand why they fight so hard to support Ukraine and its people during this diff...

My 3 weeks trip to and around Sri Lanka in February 2022 was a first time in many aspects. My first time travelling so far without my family, my first time in Asia besides Western Turkey, my first time bag packing and the first time in South East Asia. We call them first times because they are usually not "only times". I hope this will be the case, because this trip has inspired me to do something similar many more times in my life. I have always enjoyed travelling and I have been lucky to experience many parts of the world as a child, thanks to the trips with my family. However, these trips have mostly been to countries that are fairly similar to mine. I had always had the desire to discover those places I knew were so different. This desire became stronger after I moved to Denmark. Here I discovered that many young students like myself had interrupted their studies in several occasion to go on long and meaningful trips to remote places of our globe. I knew I wanted to do th...